Hebrew part · H637
אַף
aphaf
also
134 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼaph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H637is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 22 of 39Old Testament books
- 31spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H637
meaning accession (used as an adverb or conjunction); also or yea; adversatively though
The King James renders it: also, [phrase] although, and (furthermore, yet), but, even, [phrase] how much less (more, rather than), moreover, with, yea.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
aph is rendered "also". It stands 134 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-two books.
- Thirty of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 3:1Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”
- The Greek text spells it thirty-one different ways.
The first use
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”
Genesis 3:1אַ֚ף
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in twenty-two of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- also80
- indeed19
- and also15
- even6
- ¿ also5
- and indeed5
- and even3
- ¿ even1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 134, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
31 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אַף־62
- אַ֣ף12
- אַ֝֗ף8
- וְאַף־7
- אַ֚ף6
- אַ֭ף4
- אַ֥ף3
- אַ֗ף2
- אַ֕ף2
- הַאַ֥ף2
- וְאַ֥ף2
- וְאַ֛ף2
and 19 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- interjection105HTj
- conjunction (“and”) + interjection23HC/Tj
- question particle + interjection6HTi/Tj
Genesis
five uses
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”
- אַ֚ףʾafinterjectiontagged: indeed
And the LORD asked Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Can I really bear a child when I am old?’
- הַאַ֥ףhaafquestion particle + interjectiontagged: ¿ also
Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
- הַאַ֣ףhaafquestion particle + interjectiontagged: ¿ also
What if there are fifty righteous ones in the city? Will You really sweep it away and not spare the place for the sake of the fifty righteous ones who are there?
- הַאַ֤ףhaafquestion particle + interjectiontagged: ¿ also
When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream: There were three baskets of white bread on my head.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
Leviticus
nine uses
then this is what I will do to you: I will bring upon you sudden terror, wasting disease, and fever that will destroy your sight and drain your life. You will sow your seed in vain, because your enemies will eat it.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
then I will act with hostility toward you, and I will strike you sevenfold for your sins.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
then I will walk in fury against you, and I, even I, will punish you sevenfold for your sins.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
Those of you who survive in the lands of your enemies will waste away in their iniquity and will decay in the sins of their fathers.
- וְאַ֛ףveafconjunction (“and”) + interjectiontagged: and also
But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—
- וְאַ֕ףveafconjunction (“and”) + interjectiontagged: and also
and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity,
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
then I will remember My covenant with Jacob and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
- וְאַף֩veafconjunction (“and”) + interjectiontagged: and also
- וְאַ֨ףveafconjunction (“and”) + interjectiontagged: and also
Yet in spite of this, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject or despise them so as to destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.
- וְאַף־veaf-conjunction (“and”) + interjectiontagged: and also
Numbers
one use
Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey or given us an inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you gouge out the eyes of these men? No, we will not come!”
- אַ֡ףʾafinterjectiontagged: also
Deuteronomy
seven uses
Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
(That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
then take an awl and pierce it through his ear into the door, and he will become your servant for life. And treat your maidservant the same way.
- וְאַ֥ףveafconjunction (“and”) + interjectiontagged: and also
For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!
- וְאַ֖ףveafconjunction (“and”) + interjectiontagged: and indeed
Surely You love the people; all the holy ones are in Your hand, and they sit down at Your feet; each receives Your words—
- אַ֚ףʾafinterjectiontagged: also
Concerning Gad he said: “Blessed is he who enlarges the domain of Gad! He lies down like a lion and tears off an arm or a head.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
So Israel dwells securely; the fountain of Jacob lives untroubled in a land of grain and new wine, where even the heavens drip with dew.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
Judges
one use
Her wisest ladies answer; indeed she keeps telling herself,
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
1 Samuel
four uses
The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
How much better it would have been if the troops had eaten freely today from the plunder they took from their enemies! Would not the slaughter of the Philistines have been much greater?”
- אַ֗ףʾafinterjectiontagged: indeed
David answered, “Women have indeed been kept from us, as is usual when I set out. And the equipment of the young men is holy, as it is even on common missions, and all the more at this time.”
- וְאַ֕ףveafconjunction (“and”) + interjectiontagged: and indeed
But David’s men said to him, “Look, we are afraid here in Judah; how much more if we go to Keilah against the armies of the Philistines?”
- וְאַף֙veafconjunction (“and”) + interjectiontagged: and indeed
2 Samuel
three uses
How much more, when wicked men kill a righteous man in his own house and on his own bed, shall I not now require his blood from your hands and remove you from the earth!”
- אַ֞ףʾafinterjectiontagged: indeed
Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son, my own flesh and blood, seeks my life. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone and let him curse me, for the LORD has told him so.
- וְאַ֨ףveafconjunction (“and”) + interjectiontagged: and indeed
Sheba passed through all the tribes of Israel to Abel-beth-maacah and through the entire region of the Berites, who gathered together and followed him.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
1 Kings
one use
But will God indeed dwell upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
- אַ֕ףʾafinterjectiontagged: indeed
2 Kings
two uses
Then he took the cloak of Elijah that had fallen from him and struck the waters. “Where now is the LORD, the God of Elijah?” he asked. And when he had struck the waters, they parted to the right and to the left, and Elisha crossed over.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
Naaman’s servants, however, approached him and said, “My father, if the prophet had told you to do some great thing, would you not have done it? How much more, then, when he tells you, ‘Wash and be cleansed’?”
- וְאַ֛ףveafconjunction (“and”) + interjectiontagged: and indeed
1 Chronicles
three uses
and Mikloth, who was the father of Shimeah. These also lived alongside their relatives in Jerusalem.
- וְאַף־veaf-conjunction (“and”) + interjectiontagged: and also
Mikloth was the father of Shimeam. They too lived alongside their relatives in Jerusalem.
- וְאַף־veaf-conjunction (“and”) + interjectiontagged: and also
tremble before Him, all the earth. The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
2 Chronicles
three uses
But will God indeed dwell with man upon the earth? Even heaven, the highest heaven, cannot contain You, much less this temple I have built.
- אַ֕ףʾafinterjectiontagged: indeed
Then Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and he said to them, “This is what the LORD says: ‘You have forsaken Me; therefore, I have forsaken you into the hand of Shishak.’”
- וְאַף־veaf-conjunction (“and”) + interjectiontagged: and also
So now, do not let Hezekiah deceive you, and do not let him mislead you like this. Do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you from my hand!”
- אַ֚ףʾafinterjectiontagged: indeed
Nehemiah
three uses
I also told them about the gracious hand of my God upon me, and what the king had said to me. “Let us start rebuilding,” they replied, and they set their hands to this good work.
- וְאַף־veaf-conjunction (“and”) + interjectiontagged: and also
Even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ‘This is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and when they committed terrible blasphemies,
- אַ֗ףʾafinterjectiontagged: even
In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them against selling food on that day.
- וְאַף־veaf-conjunction (“and”) + interjectiontagged: and also
Esther
one use
“What is more,” Haman added, “Queen Esther invited no one but me to join the king at the banquet she prepared, and I am invited back tomorrow along with the king.
- אַ֣ףʾafinterjectiontagged: also
Job
twenty uses
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!
- אַ֤ף׀ʾafinterjectiontagged: also
You would even cast lots for an orphan and barter away your friend.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: even
How then can I answer Him or choose my arguments against Him?
- אַ֭ףʾafinterjectiontagged: indeed
Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: indeed
But you even undermine the fear of God and hinder meditation before Him.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?
- אַ֭ףʾafinterjectiontagged: indeed
Even if I have truly gone astray, my error concerns me alone.
- וְאַף־veaf-conjunction (“and”) + interjectiontagged: and even
how much less man, who is but a maggot, and the son of man, who is but a worm!”
- אַ֭ףʾafinterjectiontagged: indeed
Therefore I say, ‘Listen to me; I too will declare what I know.’
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
I too will answer; yes, I will declare what I know.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
Indeed, it is true that God does not act wickedly, and the Almighty does not pervert justice.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
Could one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn the just and mighty One,
- הַאַ֬ףhaafquestion particle + interjectiontagged: ¿ also
How much less, then, when you say that you do not see Him, that your case is before Him and you must wait for Him,
- אַ֣ףʾafinterjectiontagged: indeed
Indeed, He drew you from the jaws of distress to a spacious and broad place, to a table full of richness.
- וְאַ֤ףveafconjunction (“and”) + interjectiontagged: and also
Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out, how the thunder roars from His pavilion?
- אַ֣ףʾafinterjectiontagged: also
The thunder declares His presence; even the cattle regard the rising storm.
- אַ֣ףʾafinterjectiontagged: also
“At this my heart also pounds and leaps from its place.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
He loads the clouds with moisture; He scatters His lightning through them.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?
- הַ֭אַףhaafquestion particle + interjectiontagged: ¿ even
Psalms
twenty-three uses
The lines of my boundary have fallen in pleasant places; surely my inheritance is delightful.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
I will bless the LORD who counsels me; even at night my conscience instructs me.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will dwell securely.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
who delivers me from my enemies. You exalt me above my foes; You rescue me from violent men.
- אַ֣ףʾafinterjectiontagged: also
But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
No, in your hearts you devise injustice; with your hands you mete out violence on the earth.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
The pastures are clothed with flocks, and the valleys are decked with grain. They shout in triumph; indeed, they sing.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
the earth shook and the heavens poured down rain before God, the One on Sinai, before God, the God of Israel.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
Why do you gaze in envy, O mountains of many peaks? This is the mountain God chose for His dwelling, where the LORD will surely dwell forever.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
You have ascended on high; You have led captives away. You have received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.
- וְאַ֥ףveafconjunction (“and”) + interjectiontagged: and even
The day is Yours, and also the night; You established the moon and the sun.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
The waters saw You, O God; the waters saw You and swirled; even the depths were shaken.
- אַ֝֗ףʾafinterjectiontagged: also
The clouds poured down water; the skies resounded with thunder; Your arrows flashed back and forth.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
The heavens praise Your wonders, O LORD— Your faithfulness as well— in the assembly of the holy ones.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
The heavens are Yours, and also the earth. The earth and its fullness You founded.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
My hand will sustain him; surely My arm will strengthen him.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
I will indeed appoint him as My firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
You have bent the edge of his sword and have not sustained him in battle.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
The LORD reigns! He is robed in majesty; the LORD has clothed and armed Himself with strength. The world indeed is firmly established; it cannot be moved.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
Declare among the nations: “The LORD reigns!” The world is firmly established; it cannot be moved; He will judge the peoples with equity.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
My heart is steadfast, O God; I will sing and make music with all my being.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
They do no iniquity; they walk in His ways.
- אַ֭ףʾafinterjectiontagged: also
they have ears, but cannot hear; nor is there breath in their mouths.
- אַ֝֗ףʾafinterjectiontagged: also
Proverbs
nine uses
She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table.
- אַ֝֗ףʾafinterjectiontagged: also
If the righteous receive their due on earth, how much more the ungodly and the sinner!
- אַ֝֗ףʾafinterjectiontagged: indeed
Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD—how much more the hearts of men!
- אַ֝֗ףʾafinterjectiontagged: indeed
Eloquent words are unfit for a fool; how much worse are lying lips to a ruler!
- אַ֝֗ףʾafinterjectiontagged: indeed
All the brothers of a poor man hate him—how much more do his friends avoid him! He may pursue them with pleading, but they are nowhere to be found.
- אַ֤ףʾafinterjectiontagged: indeed
Luxury is unseemly for a fool—how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!
- אַ֝֗ףʾafinterjectiontagged: indeed
The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable—how much more so when brought with ill intent!
- אַ֝֗ףʾafinterjectiontagged: indeed
So that your trust may be in the LORD, I instruct you today—yes, you.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: even
Like a robber she lies in wait and multiplies the faithless among men.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
Ecclesiastes
one use
So I became great and surpassed all in Jerusalem who had preceded me; and my wisdom remained with me.
- אַ֥ףʾafinterjectiontagged: also
Song of Solomon
two uses
How handsome you are, my beloved! Oh, how delightful! The soft grass is our bed.
- אַ֣ףʾafinterjectiontagged: also
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
Isaiah
thirty uses
Yes, we wait for You, O LORD; we walk in the path of Your judgments. Your name and renown are the desire of our souls.
- אַ֣ףʾafinterjectiontagged: also
My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
O LORD, Your hand is upraised, but they do not see it. They will see Your zeal for Your people and be put to shame. The fire set for Your enemies will consume them!
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
O LORD, be gracious to us! We wait for You. Be our strength every morning and our salvation in time of trouble.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
It will bloom profusely and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God.
- אַ֚ףʾafinterjectiontagged: also
No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.
- אַ֣ףʾafinterjectiontagged: even
- אַ֚ףʾafinterjectiontagged: even
- אַ֛ףʾafinterjectiontagged: even
Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My right hand of righteousness.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
Tell us the things that are to come, so that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do something good or evil, that we may look on together in dismay.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
Who has declared this from the beginning, so that we may know, and from times past, so that we may say: ‘He was right’? No one announced it, no one foretold it, no one heard your words.
- אַ֣ףʾafinterjectiontagged: also
- אַ֚ףʾafinterjectiontagged: also
- אַ֥ףʾafinterjectiontagged: also
The LORD goes forth like a mighty one; He stirs up His zeal like a warrior. He shouts; yes, He roars in triumph over His enemies:
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
everyone called by My name and created for My glory, whom I have indeed formed and made.”
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
- אַ֣ףʾafinterjectiontagged: also
It serves as fuel for man. He takes some of it to warm himself, and he kindles a fire and bakes his bread; he even fashions it into a god and worships it; he makes an idol and bows down to it.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
He burns half of it in the fire, and he roasts meat on that half. He eats the roast and is satisfied. Indeed, he warms himself and says, “Ah! I am warm; I see the fire.”
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”
- וְ֠אַףveafconjunction (“and”) + interjectiontagged: and also
Speak up and present your case—yes, let them take counsel together. Who foretold this long ago? Who announced it from ancient times? Was it not I, the LORD? There is no other God but Me, a righteous God and Savior; there is none but Me.
- אַ֥ףʾafinterjectiontagged: also
They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can bow down and worship.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
They lift it to their shoulder and carry it along; they set it in its place, and there it stands, not budging from that spot. They cry out to it, but it does not answer; it saves no one from his troubles.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
I summon a bird of prey from the east, a man for My purpose from a far-off land. Truly I have spoken, and truly I will bring it to pass. I have planned it, and I will surely do it.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
Listen to Me, O Jacob, and Israel, whom I have called: I am He; I am the first, and I am the last.
- אַ֖ףʾafinterjectiontagged: also
Surely My own hand founded the earth, and My right hand spread out the heavens; when I summon them, they stand up together.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him. I have brought him, and he will succeed in his mission.
- אַף־ʾaf-interjectiontagged: also
Ezekiel
three uses
For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast?
- אַ֣ףʾafinterjectiontagged: indeed
Even when it was whole, it could not be made useful. How much less can it ever be useful when the fire has consumed it and charred it!
- אַ֣ףʾafinterjectiontagged: indeed
Furthermore, you sisters sent messengers for men who came from afar; and behold, when they arrived, you bathed for them, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with jewelry.
- וְאַ֗ףveafconjunction (“and”) + interjectiontagged: and also
Amos
one use
I raised up prophets from your sons and Nazirites from your young men. Is this not true, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD.
- הַאַ֥ףhaafquestion particle + interjectiontagged: ¿ also
Habakkuk
two uses
and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own.
- וְאַף֙veafconjunction (“and”) + interjectiontagged: and also
Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!
- וְאַ֣ףveafconjunction (“and”) + interjectiontagged: and even
The letters
Gematria 81· 801 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
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